Related Topics Command

Microsoft Corporation

Updated June 10, 1999

Purpose

Displays a list of target topics that a user can jump to. The Item parameter stores information about each target. The list of target topics appears on a pop-up menu or in a dialog box.

This command can be used with either a compiled help (.chm) file or uncompiled HTML files.

Syntax

<PARAM  name="Command" value="Related Topics [,menu|,dialog]">


<PARAM  name="Item1"   value="Topic1;Main URL for Topic1;Alternate URL for Topic1">


[<PARAM name="Button"  value="[Text: Button text|Bitmap: Bitmap file path|Icon:Icon file path]">]


[<PARAM name="Font"    value="Facename[, point size[, charset[, color[, PLAIN BOLD ITALIC UNDERLINE]]]]">]


[<PARAM name="Frame"   value="Frame Name">]


[<PARAM name="Text"    value="Text: Link text">]

Property	Description
Button	Specifies the button style. Optional.
Command	Calls the Related Topics command and specifies whether to display target topics on a pop-up menu or in a dialog box. If you do not specify a display option, a dialog box appears by default. To specify the Topics Found dialog box, type dialog. To specify a pop-up menu, type menu.
Font	Specifies the font attributes. Optional.
Frame	Specifies the frame in which to display the selected topic. Optional.
Item1	Specifies the following information about the target topic: Topic title as you want it to appear in the Topics Found dialog box or on a pop-up menu. Topic file path. Alternate topic to display if the first topic is unavailable. Multiple values are delimited by a semicolon. To specify subsequent topic information, use Item2, Item3, etc.
Text	Specifies the link text. Optional.

Example

<OBJECT


  id=candomble


  type="application/x-oleobject"


  classid="clsid:adb880a6-d8ff-11cf-9377-00aa003b7a11"


  codebase="Hhctrl.ocx#Version=4,72,8252,0"


  width=100


  height=100


>


  <PARAM name="Command" value="Related Topics, MENU">


  <PARAM name="Button" value="Text:See Also">


  <PARAM name="Item1" value="About Oxala;oxala.html;http://example.microsoft.com/">


  <PARAM name="Item2" value="About Yemanja;Yemanja.html;http://example.microsoft.com/">


  <PARAM name="Item3" value="About Oba;oba.html;http://example.microsoft.com/">


  <PARAM name="Item4" value="About Ogum;ogum.html;http://example.microsoft.com/">


  <PARAM name="Item5" value="Bad Link;bad_link.html;http://example.microsoft.com/">
</OBJECT>

Sample Related Topics command

Comments

The Button parameter is omitted when this command is invoked by a script.

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